Products/Services
With more than 60 years of experience in the logistics industry, Kenco is one of the largest privately held, family-owned supply chain management companies in the United States. Our goal is to deliver common sense solutions for your business to drive uncommon value. We are committed to customer service, and our team of over 40 logistics engineers are dedicated to solving inefficiencies and cutting costs for customers anywhere along the supply chain.
Logistics Services
Through Kenco Logistic Services, we offer world class logistic solutions from warehousing to value added services. We offer custom solutions and strive to meet the specific needs of each of our clients, resulting in customer relationships that span decades.
Supply Chain Management
By working with an experienced supply chain logistics partner, our customers are able to focus on their core competencies while we manage the transportation, warehousing, material handling equipment, and more. In particular, we work to help our customers:
- Balance inventory
- Lower costs
- Improve customer service
- Strengthen supplier relationships
- Gain a competitive edge
- Operate more efficiently
Warehousing
We operate a number of multi-client warehouse locations across North America, equipped with innovative warehouse and inventory management systems.
Kenco also works with customers to locate and manage dedicated warehousing space. We partner with our clients to provide customizable warehouse space and supply chain management as needed to improve and maintain operational efficiency.
Logistics Engineering
At Kenco Logistic Services, many of our customers come to us with specific issues they want to solve or processes they want to streamline. We employ more than 40 logistics engineers to invent data-driven solutions that improve both your bottom-line and operational efficiency. Our logistics engineering experience includes:
- Lean Six Sigma training and implementation
- Continuous improvement
- Network optimization
- Inventory optimization
- Value-stream mapping
- Sustainability projects
- Facility layout
- Costing/pricing
- New facility transitions
Our process starts with an analysis of your business and operational functions so that we can create a custom approach. Then we will supply improvement recommendations specific to your needs and your industry.
Labor Management Solutions
Kenco Group provides a number of labor management systems that can help our customers understand productivity and patterns, assess employee performance, and improve efficiency and cost management.
Manhattan Labor Management System
- Define performance standards
- Forecast requirements and monitor work in progress
- Project hours needed to complete planned work
- Export pay data for payroll
- Access extensive reporting capabilities
- Improve morale and productivity
- Reduce turnover and overtime costs
Red Prairie Labor Management System
- Time and attendance tracking, scheduling and reporting
- Develop labor standards for each task
- Access to performance measurement and feedback reporting
- Optimization of tasks
- Workload planning
Kenco Group's Proprietary Labor Management System
- Kenco’s in-house labor management solution
- Development of engineered standards
- Tracking and feedback of each employee’s performance against the standard
- Indexing and profiling of products, business changes and work activity
- Benchmarking of historical data to trend future workload planning
- Activity-based costing
- Robust dashboards and reporting functionality
- In-depth analysis of changing marketplace factors